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Waelder city, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Waelder city is a Census city of 603 people across 1.28 square miles of land, in Gonzales County. Median household income is $61,214, 70.8 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Waelder
What Waelder is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.28 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land471 plus or minus 204
- County holding the largest share of its areaGonzales County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waelder
How many people live in Waelder
- Population603 plus or minus 261
- Median age40.9
- Population under 1877 plus or minus 56
- Share under 1812.8 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Population 65 and over81 plus or minus 51
- Share 65 and over13.4 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Households264 plus or minus 111
- Family households176 plus or minus 89
- Share of households that are families66.7 percent plus or minus 18.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waelder
Income and work in Waelder
- Median household income$61,214 plus or minus $14,856
- Per capita income$29,302 plus or minus $7,944
- Civilian labor force413 plus or minus 193
- Employed397 plus or minus 191
- Unemployed16 plus or minus 25
- Unemployment rate3.9 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Adults 25 and over456 plus or minus 193
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher70.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.4 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.7 percent plus or minus 9.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waelder
Housing in Waelder
- Housing units307 plus or minus 116
- Occupied units264 plus or minus 111
- Vacant units43 plus or minus 33
- Vacancy rate14.0 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Owner occupied187 plus or minus 89
- Renter occupied77 plus or minus 58
- Ownership rate70.8 percent plus or minus 15.8
- Median owner-occupied home value$59,400 plus or minus $23,677
- Median gross rent, monthly$959 plus or minus $337
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.8 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Single family units194 plus or minus 87
- Share single family63.2 percent plus or minus 15.4
- Units in buildings of two or more23 plus or minus 33
- Share in buildings of two or more7.5 percent plus or minus 10.3
- Mobile homes90 plus or minus 60
- Median year structure built1970
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waelder
How Waelder gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute330 plus or minus 174
- Commuting under 15 minutes104 plus or minus 86
- Share commuting under 15 minutes31.5 percent plus or minus 20.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more148 plus or minus 87
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more44.8 percent plus or minus 11.8
- Drove alone72.0 percent plus or minus 20.4
- Carpooled3.0 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked14.7 percent plus or minus 13.3
- Worked from home10.3 percent plus or minus 10.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waelder
Flood risk in Waelder
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number480255
- Currently effective map date12/03/10
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Gonzales County, not Waelder
Gonzales County context, not Waelder figures
These are Gonzales County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Waelder measurements.
- Establishments in Gonzales County405
- Employment at those establishments, Gonzales County4,950
- Covered employment, Gonzales County7,180
- Average annual pay, Gonzales County$54,216
- Average weekly wage, Gonzales County$1,043
- Housing units permitted, Gonzales County14
- Of those, single family, Gonzales County14
- County product, 2024, Gonzales County$3,676,091,000
- County product change over the prior year, Gonzales County0.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Gonzales County$54,423
Every figure in this section is published for Gonzales County as a whole and is not a measurement of Waelder. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Waelder questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Waelder, Texas?
603, in 264 households. Waelder city covers 1.28 square miles of land, which is 471 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Waelder in?
Gonzales County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Waelder?
$61,214. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $59,400. Median gross rent is $959 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Waelder in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Waelder appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 480255, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Waelder figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Gonzales County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Waelder.
Is zoning published for Waelder?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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